Travel Fears

If you’re anything like me, you often find yourself daydreaming of your next vacation. You are probably most often daydreaming about the escape of a vacation – the smell of the beach, the taste of the tropical drinks, the conversation over great meals, the experience of seeing centuries old architecture, believing that in a week or two that all of life’s troubles and worry will gently melt away with the swaying of the hammock you’ve nestled yourself into with the newest John Grisham loaded in your Kindle.

I hate to be the negative Nancy, but do you also think of the things that could go wrong on your holiday? I think most would agree that the fear factor is limited to a few things we all think we’re invincible to, example – pick pocketing, scammers, or even simply loss of luggage. We spend so much time worrying in our everyday life that we sometimes forget that when we’re on vacation we’re just as vulnerable as we are on the front porch swing of our home. However, when putting things into perspective, losing our luggage, the chances of a plane tragedy or losing a few dollars to a pickpocket are nothing in comparison to the scariest statistic of them all – according to a recent article in USAToday, “A U.S. traveler dies on a foreign road every 36 hours on average.” This is a startling statistic, especially since we are in a country that has a click it or ticket sign almost every mile down the highway so we don’t forget about the risk we are taking every time we’re on the open road. This brings me to a question - why is it when we get in a taxi or limo we think we can turn on our invincibility cloak (hello, we’re not Harry Potter), that we begin to believe we are untouchable? Are we naïve, uninformed, too trusting, lazy or worse yet, we just don’t care?  

I have to believe we are smarter than this, however unfortunately the statistics are speaking for themselves. Be smart plan ahead, you never know what will happen and if the past teaches us anything it’s that we can’t be spectators in life, we have to participate and be conscience of the decisions we make and who it will effect.

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